Tuesday, May 13th, 2014

Optical character recognition systems, or OCR, can scan text and convert it to a digital format. This is great for things like depositing checks at an ATM or digitizing old books. Of course, the systems aren’t perfect. For example, one widely-used system is replacing instances of the word “arms” with the word “anus”.

This line is about to change dramatically.
[Image credit: Sarah Wendell]